Anthony Pettis Out, Korean Zombie in at UFC 163

Call me crazy but I would like to see Mendes get a rematch with his improved striking with Aldo. After all not s--- happened in the 1st rd of their fight until Mendes had the takedown until Aldo grab the fence then boom knee to the head.

You're definitely not crazy, but I doubt it's happening. Aldo has been wanting to jump to LW for a while already. I put my money on this being his farewell fight at FW. His next fight will be for the LW title...Mendes is definitely in the mix for the "next" FW champ, I think he beats Lamas. The division minus Aldo is up for the taking and becomes very interesting with the top 5 or 6 guys jockeying for position

This is f---ing bulls---. Lamas deserves it more than Zombie. UFC $$ machine at it again, choose the guy who can make more $ over the guy who really deserves it.

? yeah such a robbery. 2 guys with practically the same record fighting practically the same level of guys. Damn that UFC for picking the Asian guy with the cooler name. Man they are just going to rake it in now....

? yeah such a robbery. 2 guys with practically the same record fighting practically the same level of guys. Damn that UFC for picking the Asian guy with the cooler name. Man they are just going to rake it in now....

hioki, swanson, koch and matt grice are better than poirer hominick and garcia..

hioki, swanson, koch and matt grice are better than poirer hominick and garcia..

This. Lamas has 4 wins in the last 24 months. Zombie has 3 in the last 28 months. Yeah Zombie beat Poirier in a #1 contender fight, but that was 13 months ago. Lamas just beat Koch in a #1 contenders fight 5 months ago. When you're hurt the division moves on without you.

My day got a whole lot worse when I found out this news. For some reason, out of all the fights that we've lost over the years due to injury, this one bugs me the most. This was my most anticipated fight of the year outside of a potential Jones/Silva fight. I still think my reasoning for Pettis deserving this shot is warranted. I still don't understand why you think its crazy that a proven talent at 155 isn't worthy of a title shot at 145 where there is Jose Aldo....and everybody else not really close. Those top guys left at 145 just aren't that marketable and likely not as talented as Pettis when you look at his success in the 155 division. An extremely deep division and a win over the multi-org LW champ. That success should easily bump him ahead of those guys.

the problem is you are over-exaggerating Pettis' success at LW. He has barely done enough to earn a title shot in his OWN division........let alone another one. Add in that marketability and success in ones division are two completely different things

Unless Aldo gets busted up, we might see Aldo/Bendo before Pettis/Bendo and that's assuming he wins vs Grant, a pretty tough test. I don't see Aldo being a part of the FW future after this fight

Ariel's been trolling that they may pull TJ from that match and insert Pettis. He's from Milwaki and he's saying he should be healed up by then.

TJ Grant Losing His Title Shot To Anthony Pettis?

Published on Jun 14, 2013
UFC Tonight's Ariel Helwani spoke with TJ Grant, who is fighting Benson Henderson at UFC 164, at the UFC 161 weigh in. Grant just found that Pettis will be unable to compete against Jose Aldo and Helwani seems to think that there may be the possibility of Grant being replaced by Pettis.

Ariel's been trolling that they may pull TJ from that match and insert Pettis. He's from Milwaki and he's saying he should be healed up by then.

TJ Grant Losing His Title Shot To Anthony Pettis?

Published on Jun 14, 2013
UFC Tonight's Ariel Helwani spoke with TJ Grant, who is fighting Benson Henderson at UFC 164, at the UFC 161 weigh in. Grant just found that Pettis will be unable to compete against Jose Aldo and Helwani seems to think that there may be the possibility of Grant being replaced by Pettis.

Ariel Helwani, BOO, Boo this man.

I think this post just may bring BRF to tears!!
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I think this would suck too, just for the record!